Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
by darkpuma on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:03PM
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In an age before android or iphones, blackberry ruled the world. The iphone as it was released was a functional regression for blackberry power users. And it didn't catch on with that demographic until Apple iterated on the iphone to close the gap.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
by ct520 on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:29PM
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You are correct - I totally spaced the blackberry. I was focused on the app store comment. LOL them blackberry power users hung on for awhile huh?
Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
by Sharlin on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:06AM
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Blackberry ruled the US. It was mostly unknown in the world.
Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design
by darkpuma on Monday July 15, 2019 @01:17AM
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Nitpicks aside, if Blackberry preceded the iphone only in America, it still preceded the iphone. Note that I never claimed that predecessors to the iphone, with more functionality than the iphone, were also more commercially successful in America, let alone worldwide. Claiming that would be ridiculous.